Winnipeg

Downtown of Winnipeg

The Forks

The ruine of an old french church

Exchange district

Exchange District

Bridge over the Red River

Harlem Globetrotters

During the endless time we waited for the cheque we tryed to discover Winnipeg. Winnipeg is a big city with a nice downtown, an intersting old exchange district, and a historic market called "the forks". The city is nice and more atractive than Regina or Calgary. But we were here for too many days and after a couple of days every city starts to get boring. Espacily if you try to waste your time and you don't know what you can do.

And so waste our time with: thousands of walks in the downtown, a day at the forks, a visit in the museum of Manitoba, in the cinema watching the movie state of play, a nice evening in a jazz bar, visiting the parliament building, an intersting tour trough a church by a priest with ringing the bell, in shopping malls, hanging around at Starbucks, McD, Subway, Boston Pizza and co, fitness in the YMCA Centre,...

But we didn't spent enough time we still don't have a cheque. So Stephie decided to go a head to Toronto because she has not so much time left untill she flys back to good old Germany. And now I'm alone and wait for a cheque. In the hostel a met a good friend Johanna we enjoyed together one day in the city.

Camper for sale

Camper for sale!

After this catastrophe we spent a too long time in winnipeg. We advertised the car in the internet. We asked a dealer for his price but wasn't interested. Not ever for 500 Dollar. Nobody in the city was interested to buy the camper.
It's difficult to sell the car here because the car it's too old to pass a safety certificate. In BC you don't need a certificate like that. Fortunetly we found somebody who want to buy the car. The problem was just that he doesn't know what he wants and how he wants to pay. And so we spent lot of days in Winnipeg for nothing! Finally we found somebody else. This body was our big hope. He wrote us that he already sent a cheque. The problem here was after this mail he didn't wrote us back. So we waited hopefully some days for the cheque in fact that we are waiting untill today. Actually i think that we wil never get it. But it's our only hope to get a little bit of money for the car. It's a very dificult situation for me and I really don't know what to do. At the Moment i'm still waiting for the cheque...

The catastrophe continue

Bad luck the car is brocken down!

On the way from Regina to Winnipeg we spent one night in Brandon. There we filled up the car with propane for the stove and the heating. But as the girl finished to fill the car up we had a leak in the propane tank. The only thing which was always working without problems was gone! She reduced the pressure and after that everything seemed to be alright. This was our only happyending story in the next comming days with the car.
At the next day we got up very late. Then we tryed to start the engine. But the engine disappeared and we couldn' t start it. So went to the gas station to ask for the number of the CAA (a kind of ADAC). I tryed to call them but it was on easter Friday which is a holiday and nnobody answered the phone. The highlight was that I couldn't find our member card. So we tryed again and again to start the car. We got no hope anymore as engine finally started again. We were lucky because we could continue our trip. It was strange but whatever it works!

In Winnipeg we took some hitchikers some meters with us who broken down with the car before the city. We had no idea that the same thing will happened us too.
Unfortunetly the luck didn't hold long. As we arrived in Winnipeg a traffic light switched to red. So jumped hard on the brake that we don't crash. But after that the brakes were gone. As we drove trough the city the pedal feelt softer and softer. Finaly we couldn't brake anymore. There was nothing absolutely no reaction anymore. Fortunetly we found a Canadian Tire where we arrived without a crash!!!
There we spent the rest of the holiday because the service shop was closed. We decided on the evening that we sell the car because it makes no sense to us to continue travelling with the old camper. Because of that our australian guy Daniel decided to leave. At the next day he took the plane to Alaska. There he is planing to do Kite sking. Good bye!!!
In morning we were the first in the service shop. A mechanican took care about our car as he finished work we spent 700 Dollar in new brakes. Well done!!! But without this repair we couldn't sell the car to somebody else. I mean doyou would like to buy a car without working brakes??? We spent all the day on the parking lot. It was like waiting by a doctor everything happend so slow. We spent over 6 hours there and it was so boring. The situation was terrible. You spent so much money in a car...

Regina

Peace on the world!

RCMP Heritage Centre

The police today and in the past

The Legislative Building

Skyscraper in the downtown

For two days we stoped in Regina. Regina is the capital of Sakatchewan. But it's small and there is not much to do!
We took a walk trough the Wascana Center which is a nice park. We saw the Downtown and we took a look in the Legislative Building. We also visited the RCMP Heritage Museum.
The Museum is was very interesting and is about the tasks and the history of the canadian police. The Galeries are brand new and explain everything. We saw a movie about the police and at the end we joined a very funny parade of the Mounties.
From Regina we drove straight to Winnipeg. On the way we spent a night beside the road.

Saskatchewan

The typical canadian style: Old farmer in a Tim Hortons in Sakatchewan

City Hall of Moose Jaw

On the road

From the Grasslands we continued driving to cross Saskatchewan. The diffrence between Alberta and Sakatchewan is just the name of th province. The landscape is exactly the same.
And so we continued driving on endless roads, crossing an other thousands fields and passing hunderts of farms. The highway was populated by prairie dogs. Unfotunetly they are not so fast like a Dodge camper Van with 120 km/h! The consequence was that we hit a lot of them. That was entertaiment! Everytime we passed a dog we got the quesstion dead or alive. A View in the mirrow helped us to make it sure.
After to many hours we arrived in the town of Moose Jaw. There we spent a night on a campsite. On the next day we took a walk in the historic downtown. Another name of the city is Little Chicago because Al Capone had a good runnig business once in the town. In a multimedia discovery walk we explored the tunnels of Moose Jaw. This was a kind of theater play with actors and everything about guns, drugs, alcohol and things like that.

The Grasslands National Park

It's every where grass so far you can see

The Grasslands

What happens if have no asphalt anymore under your tires?
Right: Continue driving to the end of the horizont.

It's an incredible feeling if can't see the end of the road because it' simply to far away!

After an endless ride crossing thounsands of fields passing hunderts of farms we felt lonlyness. After 400 km we arrived in the Grasslands National Park. The park is the only place in north america where you can see the prarie how it was before the settlers fromed everythnig in fields.

We did a safari in the park with our car and discoverd anthilopes prarie dogs goose,... The landscape looks like unaceptable for every form of life. But if you watch carefully you can see many different kinds of animals. The gras looks golden and you can imagine how the life was as the nativs lived here hundert years ago. You feel like in the western movie "der mit dem wolf tanzt" The landscape is excactly the same.

The feeling was incredible as we dicovered some bison far away from us. These are the last bison which live in freedom in the world. an unique feeling.

Karsten

Dinosaur Drumheller and the Badlands

The badland in the Dinosaur Provincial Park

The Hoodoos

Tyrell Dinosaur Museum

Daniel

Oilpump

After Calgary the landscape is just flat. Here and there you can see oilpumps on the fields. But excapt that thee are just wheat fields and farms. The roads are bad and it goes just staight for hunderts of kilometers. It's crazy if can't see the end of the road because it's to far away.
Finally we arived Drumhell were we spent a night. Drumheller is a fantastic dinosaur museum and the world largest dinosaur. The museum is fantastic. You can see real and complete skeletts of a t-rex a mamouth,... You can wath the working scientists at the fosils. It was very intersting for kids and adults.
From Drumheller we drove through the badlands. we saw the incredible hoodoos and the amazing Dinosaur Provincial Park. The landscape was so different. It was an unique experince.

greetings Karsten

Calgary sucks!!!

Calgary Downtown

Stephens Ave. the shopping mall

Hey,

from Banff we drove straight to Calgary. The city is called cow town too. And I can understand why they call the city with an ugly name like that. The city is grey and boring. There is not really something to do for a traveller. The sights are disapointing. We used our stop there to repair the table and the leak of the cooling liquide by engine. After the stop by the mechanic and stop on a gas station at the highway to change a tire we moved to Drumheller.

Nothing can stop us!

Karsten

Lake Louise Banff

The view from Sulphuir Mountain down to the Town of Banff

The frozen fall of Johnson Canyon

The township of Banff

Today we meet over australien travelmate. So we are 3 people in the camper. We drove to Johnson Canyon where we hiked to the upper fall. After a hot bath in the banff hot spring we hiked up to the Sulphur Mountain where we enjoyed the view. We saw the Fairmont in Banff and walked in the town of banff. A wounderful day.

Bye

The Rocky Mountains on the icefield Parkway

On the Icefield Parkway

Peyto Lake

That must be freedom!

What for a view! The rockymountains in the car ;)

We are back on the road! Yeahh!!!

The campsite by Jasper

Hey,

now we are back on the road to see the amazing nature of canada. On our first days we traveled from Kelowna to Lake Louise. At the next day we drove from there to jasper on the world famous Icefield Parkway. The weather was fantastic and the impressions awesome. It was a perfect day. In jasper we spent the night on a campground and at the next day we drove the same way back to Lake Louise. Check out the pics. The trip will be ever in my mind.

see you